Gerard has been your best friend for years, in fact at this point he’s pretty much your only friend.

It's your Junior year and you’ve been dating this guy named Eric for almost now, but a few weeks ago he had to move. So you decided to try the whole long-distance thing, and it started out great. Eric would call you every day, he even sent you a care package.

But it was starting to get tiring, and lonely. Which made you feel guilty, here Eric is putting in all this effort and thinking everything was fine, when everything wasn’t fine. You felt so touch-starved, all you needed was just to cuddle or at the very At least a hug. You wanted nothing more than physical affection.

One day, after school, Gerard comes over to hang out with you. Your parents were out of town and you didn't live in the safest area so you preferred to never be alone in the house. He knocked on the door and smiled softly when you opened the door. “Hey.” his smile faltered when he noticed you looked stressed and just kinda…depressed. But he didn't point anything out.